Their dating on This Is Us is off to a coarse get started, however don’t dismiss a romantic story line for Olivia (Janet Montgomery) and Kevin (Justin Hartley) just yet. In handiest two episodes at the NBC drama, Olivia has told her new costar point-blank that he sucks, angrily left him in a bar, tricked him into going to a stranger’s memorial provider and informed him that their one-time heated hookup may never, ever happen again.
Despite her dramatic entrance, Montgomery is protecting Olivia’s harsh character. “There’s no part of her that’s seeking to be imply to him,” Montgomery tells Us Weekly. “She takes what she does very severely. She is manipulative with Kevin, however only so as to assist serve him in the play.”
While Olivia has served Kevin with chopping one-liners and a hot-and-cold perspective, Montgomery explains there’s a approach to her personality’s madness. “She thinks that he isn’t actual and he or she’s looking to get an actual efficiency out of him,” the U.Okay. native tells Us. “But Kevin if truth be told teaches her a lot about herself. As it goes on, you know that she’s now not as actual as she thinks she is and Kevin isn’t as fake as she thinks he is.”
Playing the manipulative actress doesn’t come simple for Montgomery, 31, who also stars as lead witch Mary on WGN America’s Salem. “I have a very British politeness to me, the place I never want to harm somebody’s emotions,” she explains. “It’s somewhat tricky for me, enjoying Olivia, it makes my pores and skin crawl.”
Although she doesn’t precisely relate to her crafty persona, Montgomery does see the great in her function. “I feel Olivia comes across a technique, and you're feeling this manner about her after which the layers start to be peeled again and you begin to understand her more as a person,” she says. “Someone will come along and be very honest and chopping with you and you assume, ‘What a bitch,’ however Olivia will can help you perceive those folks.”
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This Is Us airs on NBC Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET.
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